>Hi Cetin,
>
>I just had a look at my code, and the Excel object I am creating is not being declared public, but when I run the application, and quit Excel with oExcel.quit() and release the variable oExcel, the Excel process created with createobject() is still active in Windows.
>
>Regards
>Darren

Maybe you're creating and keeping other references to excel objects? ie: oRange = oExcel..., oSheet = oExcel...
Cetin